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Kenny has been immersed in psychological, healing, recovery, and spiritual communities for over thirty years. He has taught, directed, and coached solo performers for over a decade.
His award-winning performance background includes classical and modern plays, standup comedy, and solo theatre.
He has collaborated with actors, comedians, storytellers, published authors, professors, therapists, clergy, healers, and his favorite–people who need to express their truth on stage. His students have gone on to perform all over the world.
Kenny takes an embodied approach when performing, directing, and coaching. His artistic vision is to create emotionally vibrant theatre using our full being.
Kenny’s solo shows are most often described as embodied, funny, and soulful, with mythological elements. The most important thing he’s learned as a performer is that audience connection is key. He teaches solo theatre artists how to build connection with an audience.
“Supreme Laughs” – SF Chronicle
“Funny and poignant” -SF Examiner
“Best Solo Show” – Bay Area Reporter
Solo Theatre Directing & Teaching Apprenticeship – Co-taught students with Charlie Varon for 10 years at The Marsh. The solo theatre foundation and core tools I learned there are the base for my work with students.
Theatre Directing – Received directing training at Berkeley Rep and the New International Performing Arts Institute. I bring the classical foundation and learned techniques from my time there to my coaching while allowing space for experimentation.
Physical Theatre – Trained with James Donlon’s Flying Actor Studio and Berkeley Rep. I draw from the multi-disciplinary traditions I learned there to help students create embodied characters and scenes.
Drama Therapy – Took courses at the Center for The Living Arts. My training helps my students’ deepen their character work through Gestalt techniques. This allows them to attune with inner worlds and psyches more fully.
Mythology – Graduated from the Pacifica Graduate Institute Certificate in Applied Mythology program and took courses at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies. Both have helped me coach my students to increase the mythic scale and universality of their shows and help them clarify characters archetypally.
Movement – Took courses at A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, James Donlon’s Flying Actor Studio, and the Tamalpa Institute. All of these have helped me coach my students to enhance their storytelling, characters, and staging skills.
Shamanism – Trained with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. My training helps me work with my students to incorporate ancestral connection into their character performances and show rituals.
Hermeticism & Alchemy – Lifelong learner of the mystical and magical across cultures and cosmologies. I use my knowledge to perform intuitive readings with students to guide their artistic experimentation. I use this most often with students who are on spiritual paths and want to create sacred space for rituals.